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National Road Relays, Feilding, 7 October 2006
Scottish harvested a first in the master's women, a second in the senior men and a third in the men 19 grade at the New Zealand road relay championships. Scottish took second in all the open men's grade subdivisions and was second in the race walk relay. Scottish was fourth in the men's 40-49 grade, after being pipped in the last lap by Wellington Harriers, and fourth in the senior women. Overall, Scottish shared the top club award with Wellington Harriers. Scottish had 20 teams, running and walking, at Feilding. Controversy reigned in the short-course race when many of the second wave teams left the course in the third leg, causing a spate of protests. The short-course results below are based on the total time for laps 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 (so just 32.3k). The top club results are based on places using this set of results. The gold medal Anne Hare won in the relay was Anne's 50th ANZ National medal in 30 years of competing in athletics: 19 gold, 14 silver and 17 bronze covering track and field, cross country, road and road relays. Phil Costley has attained this feat but we're not sure if any other NZ female athletes have. In the open grade, double honours went to the North Harbour Bays who collected both the senior men and senior women titles. Going into the final of seven laps, in the senior men Dino Bozzone had an eight second lead over Scottish's Ben Revell. However, after initially losing some ground, Bozzone pulled away over the final 2k to win by 38 seconds. Bays were in fourth after the first lap, dropped to sixth on lap two, but an outstanding run by Dale Warrander who set a new race record of 30m 27s for the 9.78k third lap, had Bays into second. Glenn Hughes led Scottish through by a narrow margin of three seconds, handing over to Scott Ferguson. Scottish held a two-second advantage going into the 9.7k fifth stage. Matt Dravitzki took half a minute out of Bays Blair Jordan to put Scottish out to a 25 second lead over Tauranga's Mark McKeown. Jason Cameron hauled Bays into the lead on lap six. Bays covered the 67.5k in 3h 35m 36s. Warrander said that he had a bit of work to do to bring Bays back into it. "I went out to pull in as many guys as I could, and make a race of it for the team. "It was a good team effort, we went in as underdogs, Scottish were the favourites, everyone stepped up and ran well," said Warrander. Cameron said it was the most satisfying win for Bays, in taking their ninth senior men's title. "We had to really work for that," said Cameron. Revell said he made a move early on in the last lap. "I made a couple of attempts to reel back the gap, but it was a good run from Dino," said Revell. "It was awesome to have three teams together, it made a great race," he added. Tauranga were third. An outstanding lap was put up by Pakuranga's Mark Bowyer, who carved over two minutes off the fifth lap record scorching over the 9.7k in 28m 52s.
Lake City of Rotorua beat defending champions Auckland University in the masters men 40-49. Auckland University, however, collected the masters men over 50. The junior men went to Nelson, the junior women to Wellington Harrier and the masters women to Wellington Scottish. Tim Hodge and Terefe Ejigu set lap records in the short course. Our top walking team (Peter Baillie, Mark Woodhouse, Simon Reynolds, James Hurring, Amelia De Lorenzo and Maria Knott) was second. After his first lap contribution, Peter Baillie went mufti and walked the remainder of the course. The overall club competition was jointly awarded to Wellington Scottish and Wellington Harriers with Hamilton City Hawks third. This is based on the top three placings across the running grades. - Report based on Athletics NZ release At the dinner were two thirds of the Scottish members who competed in the relay championship earlier in the day. The dinner was judged a roaring success by attendees. Special thanks to the division captains for organising teams (Rebecca Grainger, Bob Stephens, Don Dalgliesh and Todd Stevens) and to Todd Stevens for the immense job of organising the away trip. Lap results (no running orders: provisional) | Map Short | Map long | Details Place results Women Senior 67.5k: North Harbour Bays (S. Ward, J. Ruthe, R. Baird, D. Montague, C. Hanly, A. Hamilton, L. Roozendal) 4h 18m 15s 1, Wellington Harriers 4h 26m 12s 2, Hill City Dunedin 4h 31m 33s 3. Women fastest laps on long course: 1, G. O'Rourke (Wgtn) 35m 21s, 2 J. Ruthe (NHB) 34m 49s (rec), 3 R. Baird (NHB) 38m 22s 4, K. Palmer (HC) 35m 46s, 5 C. Hanly (NHB) 35m 33s (rec), 6 A. Hamilton (NHB) 36m 47s, 7 C. Quirin (HC) 33m 24s. Masters 32.3k: Wellington Scottish (B. Portenski, M. Allison, S. Cookson, S. Anderson, A. Hare, P. Graham) 2h 5m 52s 1, Southern Stars 2h 10m 15s 2, Hamilton City Hawks 2h 14m 56s 3. Junior 32.3k: Wellington Harrier (B. Roy, H. Green, M. Alletson, A. Mason, M. Cleland, A. Feslier-Holmes) 2h 2m 42s 1, Hamilton City Hawks 2h 6m 34s 2, North Canterbury 2h 10m 2s 3. Women fastest laps on short course: 1, 6.5km B.Portenski(Scott) 25m 45s ; 2, 7.09km S.Chisnall (Ariki) 27m21s; 3, 5.9km Rebecca Kingsford (Ham) 24m 41s; 4, 7.1 km . A.Mason (Wgtn) 26m 52s (rec); 5, 7.2km M.Cleland (Wgtn) 24m 49s (rec); 6, 4.3km G.Keown (ACA) 15m 47s( record). Men Senior 67.5k: North Harbour Bays (L. Jenkin, R. Johnston, D. Warrander, C. Rosanowski, B. Jordan, J. Cameron, D. Bozzone) 3h 35m 36s 1, Wellington Scottish 3h 36m 14s 2, Tauranga 3h 38m 4s 3. Men fastest laps on long course: 1, 9.4k M. Ingram (Cant Univ) 29m 25s (record); 2, 10.2k B. Ruthe (Tga) 31m 13s; 3, 9.8k D. Warrander (NHB) 30m 27s (rec); 4, 9.7k T. Neill (Wgtn) 30m 20s; 5, 9.7k M. Bowyer (Pak) 28m 52s (rec); 6, 9.5k J. Cameron (NHB) 30m 50s; 7, 9.1k M. Mildenhall (Akld) 27m 43s. Senior B: Ariki 3h 49m 8s 1, Wellington Scottish 3h 52m 35s 2, Takapuna 3h 56m 14s 3. Senior C: Wanganui 4h 7m 19s 1, Wellington Scottish 4h 15m 56s 2, Energy City N/Plym 4h 17m 19s 3. Senior D: Olympic Wgtn 4h 27m 53s 1, Wellington Scottish 4h 36m 41s 2, Masterton 4h 49m 43s 3. Masters 40-49: Lake City Rotorua (T. Ogilvie, C. Corney, G. Pearson, D. Cronshaw, B. Edwards, R. McIntyre, D. Smith) 4h 3m 27s 1, Auckland University 4h 8m 43s 2, Wellington Harriers 4h 13m 0s 3. Masters 50 plus: Auckland University (B. Katterns, G. Macky, G. Glass, D. Harkness, C. Henderson, C. Rhyers, S. Greenwood) 4h 15m 23s 1, Tasman Tigers 4h 15m 43s 2, Energy City 4h 34m 44s 3. Junior 38.3k: Nelson (J. Burton, P. Strong, R. Sixtus, D. Channon, D. Bowden, J. Matthews) 2h 5m 55s 1, Hamilton City Hawks 2h 6m 31s 2, Wellington Scottish 2h 8m 48s 3. Fastest laps on short course: 1, 6.5k C. McKenzie (VU) 21m 29s (record); 2, 7.09k T. Ejigu (Scott) 23m 26s (rec); 3, 5.9k G. Brockbank (Ariki) 19m 39s (rec); 4, 7.1k T. Hodge (Scott) 22m 16s (rec); 5, 7.2k J. Robertson (Ham) 21m 16s (rec); 6, 4.3k J. Matthews (Nelson) 13m 16s (equals record). Composite 32.3k: University of Canterbury (J. Busby, D. Catherwood, J. Appleby, R. Mirosa, P. Mckay, Z. Butler) 2h 0m 15s 1, Trentham 2h 0m 46s 2, Bush Harriers 2h 3m 49s 3. Walkers 38.3k: Taranaki Race Walking 3h 39m 20s 1, Wellington Scottish 3h 49m 17s 2, Valleys United 4h 10m 18s 3. Photos A selection of photos taken by members and supporters, including Chris Hare, Paul Rodway, Rohan Biggs, Seini O'Connor.
Scottish results Leg 3 (short course) has been deleted from the aggregate time to determine places. The ave min/k for that lap may not mean much as various people ran different lengths. The walking race started 1 min 27 sec late and so the first laps and the totals are overstated by this much. Please help me by emailing your correct team order Feedback. Lap lengths for the long course are 9.410, 10.163, 9.781, 9.709, 9.707, 9.549, 9.148. For the short course, 6.535, 7.091, 5.944 (officially, anyway), 7.147, 7.255, 4.295.
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